Seeing this film with my fifteen year old daughter made me proud to be a cineaste. Animation is the cinema of infinite possibilities and they are creatively and individualistically explored here. It isn't that these are the greatest animations ever made although they are all excellent in their own way. It is more that there are real artists out there putting their souls into making art and it's a fine and wonderful thing. There is a certain flimsiness that I do experience to fine art changing in time that is more or less apparent in certain styles of animation (two dimensional drawing more than puppet animation), the sense that if this is really a worthwhile picture it should be examined at the viewers own leisure. But if one sets that aside and embraces the medium, it is as potentially rich and stimulating an art form as any and this film is a good visit to a fine modern collection. If only this were the stuff of broadcast television.
Review of Cartoon Noir
